[NoCmpromiz]

A few distro’s are too big to install into RAM if you don’t have a lot of RAM.

A possibility, although I thought that unit had 2 gig like the other XP laptot does (and on which I can boot the Linux DVD..)

I'll check the ram first and then try another distro, or something. What I tried is one of those Ubuntu offspring (Mint) which I have running on another desktop here (one of those 'extra' thingies that Mrs. NoC threatens to beat me with... ;-) I do think that they have a 'lite' version, just never thought it necessary.

Thanks, I'll let you know.

[Monkey Face]

http://media.y8.com/system/contents/13365/original/Falling_Obama.swf

[GeronL]

2GB should definitely be enough for most of them, does the disc drive spin when you boot the machine? Many computers check the disk drive before booting from the HDD.